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Wass, Sam V.; Smith, Tim J. – Developmental Science, 2015
Younger brains are noisier information processing systems; this means that information for younger individuals has to allow clearer differentiation between those aspects that are required for the processing task in hand (the "signal") and those that are not (the "noise"). We compared toddler-directed and adult-directed TV…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli, Semantics
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Brodeur, Mathieu B.; Debruille, J. Bruno; Renoult, Louis; Prevost, Marie; Dionne-Dostie, Emmanuelle; Buchy, Lisa; Lepage, Martin – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The present study was carried out to examine how the event-related potentials to fragmentation predict recognition success. Stimuli were abstract meaningless figures that were either complete or fragmented to various extents but still recoverable. Stimuli were first encoded as part of a symmetry discrimination task. In a subsequent recognition…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Recognition (Psychology), Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Stormer, Viola S.; Passow, Susanne; Biesenack, Julia; Li, Shu-Chen – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Attention and working memory are fundamental for selecting and maintaining behaviorally relevant information. Not only do both processes closely intertwine at the cognitive level, but they implicate similar functional brain circuitries, namely the frontoparietal and the frontostriatal networks, which are innervated by cholinergic and dopaminergic…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Genetics, Cognitive Development, Short Term Memory
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Rosset, Delphine B.; Rondan, Cecilie; Da Fonseca, David; Santos, Andreia; Assouline, Brigitte; Deruelle, Christine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
This study evaluated whether atypical face processing in autism extends from human to cartoon faces for which they show a greater interest. Twenty children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) were compared to two groups of typically developing children, matched on chronological and mental age. They processed the emotional expressions of real…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Autism, Cartoons, Emotional Response
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Patel, Urvi J.; Hellige, Joseph B. – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Previous studies indicate that the benefits of dividing an information processing load across both cerebral hemispheres outweigh the costs of interhemispheric transfer as tasks become more difficult or cognitively complex. This is demonstrated as better performance when two stimuli to be compared are presented one to each visual field and…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Information Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Stimuli
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Runeson, Sverker; Andersson, Isabell E. K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Participants' usage of informational variables in learning visual relative-mass discrimination in collisions was tracked by means of PROBIT correlations. Four groups received feedback that was true or accorded with either of three nonspecificational cue variables. A majority in each group adopted the feedback, but several participants defied the…
Descriptors: Cues, Feedback, Multivariate Analysis, Visual Discrimination
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Leppanen, Jukka M.; Moulson, Margaret C.; Vogel-Farley, Vanessa K.; Nelson, Charles A. – Child Development, 2007
To examine the ontogeny of emotional face processing, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from adults and 7-month-old infants while viewing pictures of fearful, happy, and neutral faces. Face-sensitive ERPs at occipital-temporal scalp regions differentiated between fearful and neutral/happy faces in both adults (N170 was larger for fear)…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Adults, Human Body
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de Heering, Adelaide; Houthuys, Sarah; Rossion, Bruno – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Although it is acknowledged that adults integrate features into a representation of the whole face, there is still some disagreement about the onset and developmental course of holistic face processing. We tested adults and children from 4 to 6 years of age with the same paradigm measuring holistic face processing through an adaptation of the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Response Style (Tests), Visual Discrimination
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Starreveld, Peter A.; Theeuwes, Jan; Mortier, Karen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
The authors used visual search tasks in which components of the classic flanker task (B. A. Eriksen & C. W. Eriksen, 1974) were introduced. In several experiments the authors obtained evidence of parallel search for a target among distractor elements. Therefore, 2-stage models of visual search predict no effect of the identity of those…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Psychological Studies
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Chen, Zhe; Cave, Kyle R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
What happens after visual attention is allocated to an object? Although many theories of attention assume that all of its features are selected and processed, there has been little direct evidence that an irrelevant feature dimension of an attended nontarget is processed. In 5 experiments presented here, the authors used a singleton paradigm to…
Descriptors: Attention, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
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Ballaz, Cecile; Boutsen, Luc; Peyrin, Carole; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Marendaz, Christian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The authors studied the influence of canonical orientation on visual search for object orientation. Displays consisted of pictures of animals whose axis of elongation was either vertical or tilted in their canonical orientation. Target orientation could be either congruent or incongruent with the object's canonical orientation. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
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Ganel, Tzvi; Goshen-Gottstein, Yonatan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
The effects of familiarity on selective attention for the identity and expression of faces were tested using Garner's speeded-classification task. In 2 experiments, participants classified expression (or identity) of familiar and unfamiliar faces while the irrelevant dimension of identity (or expression) was either held constant (baseline…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Attention, Attention Control, Visual Discrimination
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Lukatela, Georgije; Eaton, Thomas; Sabadini, Laura; Turvey, M. T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
What form is the lexical phonology that gives rise to phonological effects in visual lexical decision? The authors explored the hypothesis that beyond phonological contrasts the physical phonetic details of words are included. Three experiments using lexical decision and 1 using naming compared processing times for printed words (e.g., plead and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vowels, Word Recognition, Visual Discrimination
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Agter, Frank; Donk, Mieke – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Observers performed a preview search task in which, on some trials, they had to indicate the presence of a briefly presented probe-dot. Probes could be presented on locations corresponding to old or new elements and prior to or after the presentation of the new elements. After the presentation of the new elements, probes were generally detected…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Color, Visual Perception, Task Analysis
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Perfetti, Charles A.; Liu, Ying; Fiez, Julie; Nelson, Jessica; Bolger, Donald J.; Tan, Li-Hai – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
Bilingual reading can require more than knowing two languages. Learners must acquire also the writing conventions of their second language, which can differ in its deep mapping principles (writing system) and its visual configurations (script). We review ERP (event-related potential) and fMRI studies of both Chinese-English bilingualism and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Brain
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